Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 688 495 400
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 8.83% 14.39% 8.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.25% 53.46% 40.61%
Number of salaries quoted 464 376 293
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £74,125 £77,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -0.79%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,426 926 985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 18.30% 26.92% 22.06%
Number of salaries quoted 977 672 658
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,875 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.99% -8.25% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,875 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -4.00% -3.85%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 6 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 6 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -1 206 £59,000 +7.27% 85
Essex -2 160 £40,000 +14.29% 52
Cambridgeshire -11 138 £53,000 +63.08% 65
Suffolk +25 86 £46,370 -4.88% 16
Norfolk +3 69 £55,000 +10.00% 14
Bedfordshire -14 27 £37,500 -16.67% 21
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 111 (16.13%) SharePoint
2 53 (7.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (2.18%) WordPress
4 7 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.73%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.44%) IIS
6 3 (0.44%) SAS
7 2 (0.29%) CMS
7 2 (0.29%) Confluence
7 2 (0.29%) Luigi
8 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 51 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.87%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.29%) Infor M3
2 2 (0.29%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.29%) Towers Watson Igloo
3 1 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 208 (30.23%) Microsoft 365
2 123 (17.88%) Entra ID
3 106 (15.41%) Power Platform
4 94 (13.66%) Azure AI
5 80 (11.63%) AWS
6 79 (11.48%) Azure DevOps
7 66 (9.59%) OneDrive
8 38 (5.52%) PowerApps
9 35 (5.09%) Power Automate
10 32 (4.65%) GitHub
11 31 (4.51%) Azure Logic Apps
12 26 (3.78%) Azure Data Factory
13 23 (3.34%) GCP
14 21 (3.05%) Azure Service Bus
15 20 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
16 19 (2.76%) SaaS
17 18 (2.62%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 18 (2.62%) GitHub Copilot
18 17 (2.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 13 (1.89%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 76 (11.05%) Firewall
2 65 (9.45%) DNS
3 54 (7.85%) VPN
4 50 (7.27%) DHCP
5 35 (5.09%) TCP/IP
6 16 (2.33%) Internet
6 16 (2.33%) Wireless
7 13 (1.89%) MQTT
8 12 (1.74%) VLAN
8 12 (1.74%) WAN
9 11 (1.60%) Network Security
9 11 (1.60%) VoIP
10 10 (1.45%) LAN
11 7 (1.02%) Broadband
11 7 (1.02%) PBX
11 7 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.58%) DMZ
12 4 (0.58%) Structured Cabling
13 3 (0.44%) SSL
14 2 (0.29%) L2TP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (15.55%) Azure SQL Database
2 86 (12.50%) Power BI
3 59 (8.58%) MongoDB
4 41 (5.96%) Tableau
5 32 (4.65%) SQL Server
6 28 (4.07%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (1.60%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.02%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.58%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.58%) Looker
11 4 (0.58%) Milvus
11 4 (0.58%) MySQL
11 4 (0.58%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (0.44%) Metadata
12 3 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (3.78%) Git
2 12 (1.74%) JIRA
3 4 (0.58%) MLflow
3 4 (0.58%) Selenium
3 4 (0.58%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.44%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.44%) git-flow
4 3 (0.44%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.44%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.29%) Yeoman
6 1 (0.15%) ERwin
6 1 (0.15%) JMeter
6 1 (0.15%) Postman
6 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.15%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 325 (47.24%) Social Skills
2 66 (9.59%) Finance
3 27 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (2.62%) Marketing
5 15 (2.18%) Law
6 14 (2.03%) Legal
6 14 (2.03%) Retail
7 12 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (1.74%) Public Sector
8 9 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.02%) Games
10 6 (0.87%) Advertising
10 6 (0.87%) Multimedia
11 5 (0.73%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.58%) Music Industry
13 3 (0.44%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.44%) Aviation
13 3 (0.44%) Banking
Job Titles
1 156 (22.67%) Developer
2 113 (16.42%) Analyst
3 111 (16.13%) IT Support
4 85 (12.35%) .NET Developer
5 82 (11.92%) Junior
6 77 (11.19%) Junior Analyst
7 75 (10.90%) IT Engineer
8 73 (10.61%) Support Engineer
9 70 (10.17%) Senior
10 61 (8.87%) IT Support Engineer
11 41 (5.96%) Security Analyst
12 38 (5.52%) Data Analyst
13 36 (5.23%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 36 (5.23%) Ethical Hacker
13 36 (5.23%) Junior Data Analyst
13 36 (5.23%) Junior Security Analyst
13 36 (5.23%) Lead
14 32 (4.65%) Network Engineer
15 31 (4.51%) Graduate
15 31 (4.51%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (18.17%) .NET
2 102 (14.83%) .NET Core
3 81 (11.77%) ASP.NET
4 80 (11.63%) ASP.NET Core
5 72 (10.47%) CSS
6 66 (9.59%) HTML
7 54 (7.85%) RESTful
8 38 (5.52%) React
9 35 (5.09%) Entity Framework
10 32 (4.65%) ML.NET
11 31 (4.51%) Node.js
12 29 (4.22%) Blazor
13 27 (3.92%) Terraform
14 23 (3.34%) AngularJS
15 21 (3.05%) ASP.NET Web API
15 21 (3.05%) HTML5 Canvas
15 21 (3.05%) JSON
15 21 (3.05%) Vue
16 20 (2.91%) Microsoft Graph
17 18 (2.62%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 39 (5.67%) Driving Licence
1 39 (5.67%) Onboarding
2 36 (5.23%) Cyberattack
3 32 (4.65%) Cloud Native
4 16 (2.33%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.60%) Security Posture
7 10 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (1.02%) Digital TV
10 7 (1.02%) iPhone
11 6 (0.87%) Data Structures
11 6 (0.87%) Legacy Code
11 6 (0.87%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.73%) BBC
12 5 (0.73%) Clustering
12 5 (0.73%) PKI
12 5 (0.73%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 155 (22.53%) Windows
2 89 (12.94%) Windows Server
3 17 (2.47%) Linux
4 14 (2.03%) Windows Server 2019
5 12 (1.74%) Mac OS
6 10 (1.45%) Android
6 10 (1.45%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.02%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.29%) Unix
9 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (22.09%) AI
2 151 (21.95%) Cybersecurity
3 128 (18.60%) Agile
4 110 (15.99%) Mentoring
5 104 (15.12%) DevOps
6 89 (12.94%) Business Intelligence
7 88 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
8 85 (12.35%) Full-Stack Development
9 79 (11.48%) CI/CD
10 72 (10.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 63 (9.16%) Machine Learning
12 52 (7.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 46 (6.69%) Roadmaps
14 43 (6.25%) Computer Science
15 40 (5.81%) Cloud Security
16 39 (5.67%) Service Delivery
16 39 (5.67%) User Experience
17 37 (5.38%) ITIL
18 36 (5.23%) Ethical Hacking
18 36 (5.23%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 215 (31.25%) SQL
2 153 (22.24%) C#
3 116 (16.86%) Python
4 68 (9.88%) JavaScript
5 62 (9.01%) PowerShell
6 43 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 21 (3.05%) PHP
8 14 (2.03%) Java
9 10 (1.45%) C++
10 9 (1.31%) Bicep
10 9 (1.31%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.73%) R
12 4 (0.58%) Bash
12 4 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.44%) Ruby
13 3 (0.44%) Rust
13 3 (0.44%) Scala
14 2 (0.29%) Go
15 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 187 (27.18%) Azure Certification
2 75 (10.90%) Degree
3 43 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
4 38 (5.52%) Cisco Certification
5 36 (5.23%) CEH
5 36 (5.23%) CompTIA CySA+
6 31 (4.51%) CCNA
6 31 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (4.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 27 (3.92%) Network+ Certification
8 15 (2.18%) Security Cleared
9 9 (1.31%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.31%) SC Cleared
10 8 (1.16%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.02%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.02%) CCNP
12 6 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.73%) CISSP
14 3 (0.44%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.51%) QA
2 27 (3.92%) GDPR
2 27 (3.92%) SLA
3 19 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.62%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.89%) NIST
6 10 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.31%) GRC
8 8 (1.16%) NCSC
9 7 (1.02%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.87%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.73%) JSP 440
12 4 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (0.58%) PMO
13 3 (0.44%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.15%) HL7
14 1 (0.15%) IFRS
14 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 147 (21.37%) Active Directory
2 40 (5.81%) Hyper-V
3 36 (5.23%) Docker
4 31 (4.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (2.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.29%) vSphere
9 1 (0.15%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 75 (10.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (6.10%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.73%) Ansible
4 4 (0.58%) SCCM
5 3 (0.44%) Proxmox
5 3 (0.44%) ZABBIX
6 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.15%) Grafana
7 1 (0.15%) Nessus
7 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 490 (71.22%) Microsoft
2 96 (13.95%) ForeScout
3 49 (7.12%) Cisco
4 36 (5.23%) VMware
5 28 (4.07%) Apple
6 23 (3.34%) Google
7 18 (2.62%) Adobe
8 14 (2.03%) Meraki
9 13 (1.89%) Facebook
10 12 (1.74%) Veeam
11 10 (1.45%) Databricks
12 9 (1.31%) ServiceNow
13 8 (1.16%) Ubiquiti
14 7 (1.02%) Fortinet
14 7 (1.02%) SonicWALL
15 5 (0.73%) ConnectWise
15 5 (0.73%) Epicor
15 5 (0.73%) Sony
15 5 (0.73%) Sophos
15 5 (0.73%) Yahoo!